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If they went on the halls they'd be a smash hit

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THE CHINA “MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956.

THE vacuum cleaner (held like an

instrument, left) is in full song in

The Hoffnung Music Festival." There are three cleaners and a floor-polisher In a Grand Overture-written and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.

ABOVE: George Stanlland plays a hot-water bottle in this "explosion of musical exuberance."

Skylarking At The Royal Festival

Hall.

London.

The Palladium? In your eye. It was the Royal Festival

Yes, they were playing vacuum cleaners, hot water bottles and they huffed and puzzfed down empty champagne bottles-BUT IT WAS GOOD MUSIC!

London critics agreed it was a winner. It was called the Hoffnung Music Festival Concert of 1956. Mr Hoffnung plays a tuba in a London orchestra.

They Shoot Magnets Into Cows' Tummies

St Catharines.

modern, mechanised farm machinery

buon

Although

IL

to

has proven farmers, cows who have gobbled up the nuts and bults left behind by the machinery have developed traumatic

Hutritis und

have to le magnetised to from dying prevent them

of the "mechanised disease."

Cowi

Until recently, when swallowed meal bjeels they uzily died when they pierced the animal's stomach Uning, or they developed. traumetle gartritis.

Or 1.C. Swna, a local veier- Inarian, recently started treating the alling cows by shooting magnets into cows' stomachs He treated wal special gun.

12 cows in the district and they are brieved to be the first magnelized cows in Canada.

The magnets are about three inches long and a half-inch in diameter. They are designed to remain effective for 10 years.

Avoids Surgery

The Royal Festival Hall was crowded and serious musicians showed promoters of light entertainment how to do the job in a big way.

the

"It sped from the mark

that never Il # pace islackened from the start," wrote Percy later in

Daily Mail.

The audience was caught out beautifully. 1 may have been accidental. but it was one of the best strokes of the night.

jasa. the

The Kneller Half rumpeters, drums rolled us for the National maret et smartly en Franck Anthem, and the auta

conpo er af their fan- sat down ruefully fare, raised his baton, the

1

Another

member of orchestra

the

Autobahn Doctor

strains

instead.

SO

of the fanfare period

Malcolm

Amold's "Grun! Overture" was interupled by violini Ytrah Neagh, who, fiddler, togged up as a street capered round the hail, playing Bach. holly pursued by 1- tendants.

Clashing Brass

The overture brought ringing chords from hornst Dennis Brain, organist prq tem, whirr of vacuum cleaners and

the

n floor polisher, rifle shots in

of

carbon, ps it were, a belch light and smoke from a cannon (ordnance) and bangs en eight

priser

foot drum.

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The Andante from the "Sur. Symphony brought among other surprisce, seven members of the B.B.C. Music Division as "hot water bottlists."

The delightful Yvonne Arnaud, un Relzenstela's "Concerto

Popolare" had unfortunate dif- ferences with Nerman del Mär and the orchert,

The reote traversed the Tchol- kovsky No. 1, the Grieg, the Beethoven Fourth, the Rath- maninov Sezond, and other con- certos in part, but there was lack of liaison as to which should be played at any given

mc.

In the last "ninnber," Res- pidghi's "Roman Festivals," an affair of exuberantly clashing brass and clashing overything oise, Maltaim Arrold was among the trumpets, Norman del Mar with the hormists, and Yvonne Arnaud in the plane.

Tfie orchestra, with many girls

It looked tired In

after an

immose day of rehearsal and on concert, but it was all worth it.

Dr. Swan mid the magnets, which stay in the cow's second

Duesseldorf.. stomach for its Ifetime, hold sharp metal objects in the North Rhine Westphalian stomach and prevent them from State Police are to station plereng the stomach lining. a doctor permanently,

The magnets are just coming the dunt carriageway high- into general use among farmers way, leading through the in the United States and it 15 | heart- of the industrial expected Canadian farmers wil Ruhr.

accept the new technique, Dr Swan sold.

Seven -Minute

Marriages The "Autobahn doctor" would

with

go to the scene of any trame "Fer the cast of only a few accident

Melbourne. together

the dollars farmers can protect their

An Australian husband de cattle frem demage and elimin-

patrol. police

acrta his wife every seven Police

founi that tray minutes, Dr David Mace of the ate the need for expensive surs

од the Autobahn gery, which has often proved seeldents

occur for from the British Marriage Guldanes

not successful," he said,

centre of any town and far from

doctors

Here

Interesting News Stories Fron

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Paris

The World

£40 FOR A MONROE WORK

It was the only bid for Marilyn's painting

By Michael Friend

London.

The painting nt the art auction which everyone wanted to see was but a few brief wisps of yellow upon white. The subject: a girl, nude but for the suspicion of a transparent skirt.

WHAT IS

The

Writing On The Rocks?

New York.

The girl, her hair awry, appeared to 1 trying vainly to touch her toes.

The signature, scrawled boldly along the the edge. was Marilyn Monroe Miller

Did she really paint " J was assured she 'reilly did.

I was told something That Marilyn Monroe Miller painted it in a temper because she was fed up with being gical actress,

Any Interest?

for tine

THE MONROE PAINTING: Done in a temper ??

GETTING DEARER THERE

Kinkelbos.

The high coil LL

cl living hitting African bachelors in this wall town. Wives now cost £200.

High prices being demanded

Killer Infection Strikes At The Playmates

Loition. MYSTERY disease

A which doctors describe

"h powerful, over- whelming infection" has killed two 2-year-old chit- dren, who were playfutes, In a Scottish town.

an

Irene Melliny Wied within 25 minutes of being placed it oxygen ten ut Greenock: Geurge Dlomond died within three hours of reaching the hospital.

The children lived do houses at Port Glasgow.

Dectors in the hospital labora- tory and the county public health officials are trying to Identify the

In next-

TOOller and discover the source of

the infectior

Irene's mother, the wife of a

salt;

It is estimated that the cus-91-year-old shipwright, tomary six to 10 beasts are now "She wno her contented worth £300, and, a beast

be slaughtered for wedding feast.

to

has! salt in the morning fat then the afternoon she salu - ከነ ሰ

was cold, and felt sick.

Three days later, while, neigh- for itle have pushed up the In return the husband price of tobola--the number of expect clothes for tho

canbours were at Irene's funeral, cattle traditionally

bride George developed a high tom- given to from his in-inws-Chins Mall perature. Within three-and-a- Harents for an African bride. Special

balt hours he, too, was dead,

Deep on 1h heavy_jungle |

air Alen Melville reached for of the Amazon headwaters his hammer and began to auc- There are murkscarved symtion pairings by Fumous

People boks which could turn out to seel Speccy and Drama

Central www

be a "time cuprule" na sange į from a pre-historic civilisa- tion.

"Now here." he said willi

pomp. "is a work by well- known visiting Angeleen, Mes Arthur Müller.

The tightly packed sard ence

A grenade: past back from his thiret alltion is a contimideraned forward.

Tort - dvr the mode of the

"Come, come," said Mr Mel- subot peat that mapping ville, eating good-naturedly,

of the pan can unelti rief urea je there snyore with any in- with auth:: 4

tera: 11a terest Ja Ms. Monroe? £57

The M rvi lones t the £ 2 10" Theory of ** civilisation t the Pre-history of South Athelet,

Gentpr Michanowsky. Pre- sident if the Amazonla Founda- on, let the re-ent four-month expolition

the Bolivian heartwaters of the Amazon River system

Inlo

Tan expedition forated. 17 the rege of a legendary river of writing." a boulder nieasuring 35 by 35 feet on which were

more than

20

Honour Satisfied

Mr

Melville made π Just, gallant effort. "At least," he said "you may say to posterity T have a Marilyn Monroe in my bedroom.""

Apparently no one wanted to. "Then I must tell you I have aready an offer for it of £40."

The gentleman who gets the original Marilyn Monroe Miller is Mr Terence Rattigan.

Arthur Miller has been satisfied.

"petroglyphs' -symbols by The artistic honour of Mrs which an unclent people may have tried to leave a messog? to posterity.

Mr

of

uibe

Thr Ayma ' Indiun which lives in the high Andes hos perpetuated the story of the existen.c

a "Khaweera Kelkain." or river of writing. Michanowsky atd. This tribe is thought to have been lille nie bait through the time of Columbus, but Mr Michanow. sky remeds. It os sienificant that Their

poken tangauge included a word meaning "writing,"

Mr Michunowsky believes the Liver in which his expedition's we is was done is the one to which the Aymara legend refers, The cyabis oito occur on other her reek auteroppings in the urea, He has developed a theory of the petroglyphs and has been at work on the

raje : for several years,

ANCIENT ROAD

The acrial

survey, in which three planes were used

fos photographing. disclosed An anglent road linking the low- lying river and jungle area with e nearby 14,000-foot plateau. The Amaras live in the moun- talnous area of the plateau.

Another accomplishment of the expedition was locating an The high picteau a stone-ware head of a Jaguar. There are no Jaguars on the plateau now, and the Spaniards found none there is their time, M. Michanowsky said.

"On the Jaguar head are painted symbols which to my knowledge never have been found in the Western femi- sphero before," he said. "One is an Egyptian-type tau withi

a conventional Maltese cross on each side of it.

This

all Ats into a theory of an ancient civilisation using some of the ancient symbols of mankind. It is an addition to

my theory that human willing may have originated through a universal organising principle, perhaps buried deeply, in pre- historic ritual and

mystical traditions.".

Mr Michanowscy bolleves that in the light of these dis- coverles scholars should re examine the question of whether writing

In existed

pre South America. Columbian Prevelling archaeological thought, he cald, has held that it did not,

As to whether some pre-Inca

in the

Fighton might have tried to

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sold that Australians all petroglyphs, Dr. J. Henderson, chief of the medical a13.

They estimate that between over the country had been writ said that if he were asked 10 medicine department, al: the

Vestrinary College 10 and 16 per cent of ten ing to him about their marriage guess he would buy these 10 Ontario

problema son

have been trying to fell

aviat cataclysin

Guelph, Ontario, said he was in injured in such accidents might

terested in the new treatment be saved if medical: Help were patients were not gettinize, the porhobs neki: will do, research work on it. i avaliable moro; quickly!

Erentiment they, needed in china Mail-Special

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Long Skirts Are Out

Johannesburg. Skirts reaching down to only three inches above the ankles,

Bo

designed by Mr Frederick Starke, a London dress designer, 1911 110t be worn Johannesburg.

in

Dress manufacturers, designers

In town ard buyers

say that Jehannesburg women just won't hear of long skirts,

The owner of a firm of dress manufacturers in Johannesburg cald that because of the variety of materials on the market to

to day, It was not necessary think ou: stelling and unusuo!

The women styles to keep

of Johannesburg satisfied

An Italian dress designer agreed with him. "Dresses can be an inch longer, müşɓo. Bui nct more no, no, no," he said.

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